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 Taipei (AFP) Oct 7, 2009 
Taiwan is considering purchasing four German-built submarines that had been rejected by the Greek Navy, a report said Wednesday. According to Next Magazine, Taiwan's military approached Kiel-based shipbuilder Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW) for four Class 214s after Athens rejected them for not meeting standard requirements. "The defence ministry has sent personnel to Germany, who ... read more 
Washington (AFP) Oct 7, 2009The Dalai Lama on Wednesday reached out to China, saluting a Beijing-based novelist who has defied China by seeking reconciliation with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. On a visit to Washington, the Dalai Lama presented an award to Wang Lixiong, who helped spearhead a petition by more than 300 prominent Chinese who last year questioned a crackdown on major protests in Tibet. China ... more
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Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted of national security charges
Chinese man who documented alleged Uyghur camps risks removal from US Daughter warns China not to make Jimmy Lai a 'martyr' China sanctions retired Japan general over Taiwan 'collusion' International reaction to Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai verdict Japan's only two pandas to be sent back to China Asian markets drop with Wall St as tech fears revive Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong media 'troublemaker' in Beijing's crosshairs What we know of Jimmy Lai's national security verdicts Jimmy Lai convicted of national security charges in Hong Kong 
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Washington (AFP) Oct 7, 2009The United States remains the world's largest manufacturing nation even as China gains ground, according to a new study. The survey released Tuesday by the US-based Manufacturing Institute with the Manufacturers Alliance showed that the US share of global manufacturing value has held at 22 percent in 2008, roughly the same level for nearly 30 years. China's share last year was 14 percent ... more  
Washington (AFP) Oct 7, 2009The United States launched a probe Wednesday to look into slapping penalties on imported Chinese steel pipes in a move that could widen a trade spat between the two key powers. Washington has decided to "initiate antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on imports" of Chinese "seamless" pipes used to convey water, steam, chemicals, oil products and natural gas, the Commerce ... more 
Istanbul (AFP) Oct 7, 2009Since the US consumer is no longer the main growth engine of the global economy, experts are looking at China but are sceptical the Asian giant can fill that huge role. "It is still not clear who will replace the US consumer as a source of demand," World Bank president Robert Zoellick said Monday in Istanbul, on the eve of the bank's annual meetings with the International Monetary Committee. ... more |
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Bangkok (UPI) Oct 6, 2009 The World Wildlife Fund called for Asia's first regional climate change adaptation agreement in the Greater Mekong region. The area -- which comprises Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and southwest provinces of China -- is already strongly affected by climate change, and a lack of immediate action will come at great cost to the Mekong nations, states a WWF report released ... more  
Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 6, 2009Hong Kong has overtaken New York and London as the largest wine market for Sotheby's, the auction house said Tuesday, after it sold 7.9 million dollars of rare vintage to Asian buyers over the weekend. Sotheby's recorded total wine sales of 14.3 million dollars in the southern Chinese city this year. The figure surpassed those of New York and London, which respectively fetched a total ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Oct 6, 2009China on Tuesday announced its first swine flu death, saying a patient in its southwestern Tibet region had died from the disease and warning the threat from the disease could soon worsen. In response, the government had "urgently" sent 200,000 doses of influenza A(H1N1) vaccine to the region since Sunday's death in a bid to contain the virus, China's health ministry said in a statement on ... more |
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